Embedded BI Assures User Adoption of Analytics
When a business sets out to initiate data democratization and improve data literacy, it must choose the right approach to business intelligence and select an augmented analytics product that is self-serve, intuitive, easy to implement and easy for business users to embrace. Transitioning business users into the role of a Citizen Data Scientist can be challenging.
‘If the organization wishes to convince its business users of the importance of data analytics and fact-based decision-making, it must provide tools that are intuitive, easy-to-use and can be established within the parameters of the user’s day-to-day tasks as an integrated part of their workflow.’
To ensure user adoption of BI tools, optimize return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) and successfully deploy business intelligence and augmented analytics, businesses often choose Embedded BI.
Gartner defines embedded analytics in this way: ‘Embedded analytics is a digital workplace capability where data analysis occurs within a user’s natural workflow, without the need to toggle to another application.’
Embedded BI solutions differ from the typical business intelligence solution in a number of ways. Here are just a few examples:
User Experience (Ux) – In the traditional BI environment, business users must learn a new solution and interface and may be required to among other solutions and software products to use that data within the BI tool. Users with average or poor technical skills are not likely to adopt a solution that requires additional training and multiple steps to accomplish a task. In the Embedded BI environment, analytics is accessible from within a familiar enterprise solution using a single sign-on and tools that are intuitive, so the user can quickly find information and analyze it all in one place.
User Adoption – In a traditional BI environment, users must invest time to learn a new BI tool and work within data silos to try to analyze information and share that information with others. Embedded BI allows users to leverage analytics within the natural flow of their daily tasks and easily share that data with other users, so the team and the individual user adoption is supported.
Integrated Workflow – Business team members are busy, and they are often scrambling to complete tasks on time and to make decisions, create presentations and move on to the next thing. Traditional BI tools require users to interrupt their workflow, and use multiple enterprise solutions to gather and analyze data within the BI environment, so the analytics process is cumbersome and inefficient. Embedded BI allows users to work in an integrated environment, gain data insight and make relevant data-driven decisions without delay or frustration.
‘Embedded analytics is a digital workplace capability where data analysis occurs within a user’s natural workflow, without the need to toggle to another application.’
In a business environment that is more competitive than ever before, team members must have the tools they need to perform tasks and complete activities dependably, and to have a firm grasp on the solutions and tools they use without spending a lot of time in training, or in gathering and preparing data to gain insight into challenges, issues, opportunities or trends that affect business success. If the organization wishes to convince its business users of the importance of data analytics and fact-based decision-making, it must provide tools that are intuitive, easy-to-use and can be established within the parameters of the user’s day-to-day tasks as an integrated part of their workflow. This approach to BI and analytics will ensure user adoption.
You can find out more about the Smarten Embedded BI And Integration APIs solution and add powerful functionality and access to existing ERP, SCM, HRMS, CRM or any other products. Provide analytics capabilities within existing products without major Investment. Your business users and your customers will appreciate the ease-of-use and access and you will gain a competitive advantage. Read our White Paper: ‘Making the Case for Embedded BI and Analytics.’
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